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African diaspora
African princess
African royalty
American slave
Anna Kingsley
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess
Atlantic World
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Daniel Schafer
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Florida
Florida plantation
Florida Slave
Fort George Island
free black community
plantation
Plantation Slaveowner
Revised and Expanded Edition
Senegal
slave trader
slaveowner
slavery
South
women studies
Zephaniah Kingsley
Product details
- ISBN 9780813056531
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, and eventually a central figure in a free black community. Anna Kingsley’s story adds a dramatic chapter to the history of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.
Daniel L. Schafer is professor emeritus of history and University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Florida. He is the author of several books, including Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator and Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida.
